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He adds that Jesus' Son is "the book with which Johnson is most often identified." [19] [20] The anonymous narrator of these stories, delivered from a first-person confessional point-of-view, has endeared Johnson to his readership. Critic J. Robert Lennon wrote: The work we all loved best was Jesus' Son. Unassuming in presentation and readable ...
National Book Award; National Poetry Series award Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, Jesus' Son (1992).
Said Maclean, "The book has meant a lot to me ever since it came out. I was stunned by the force of Johnson’s vision and language and the way he transformed the bleak and the ordinary into little epiphanies that are beautiful, poetic and really funny.” [2] Jesus’ Son was shot in Philadelphia over seven weeks beginning on January 14, 1999. [3]
"Car Crash While Hitchhiking" opens Johnson's 1992 short fiction collection Jesus' Son.According to critic J. Robert Lennon, the story is perhaps "the volume's most arresting work" and exhibits "sudden swerves in diction, from the straightforward and unadorned to the wildly metaphorical and self-conscious."
Jesus' Son may refer to: Jesus ' Son (short story collection) , a 1992 collection of short fiction by Denis Johnson Jesus ' Son (film) , a 1999 film based on Johnson's book
Gelernter called the book "strikingly orthodox" in its basic view of the character of Christ. [3] Mailer had largely anticipated some of the savage reviews he would receive for the book. He noted in an interview with Bruce Weber of The New York Times, "The book will get a fair share of bad reviews, but that I take for granted. I call a fair ...
The official, based in Capernaum, may have been in service to either the tetrarch Herod Antipas or the emperor. It is not clear whether he is a Jew or Gentile. [3]The healing of the official's son follows Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman regarding "a spring of water welling up to eternal life” and serves as a prelude to Jesus' statement when questioned after healing the paralytic ...
The book begins with Jesus's conception by Mary and Joseph, in the spiritual presence of God. Jesus's birth is heralded by a mysterious character, who claims to be an angel. Later, at Bethlehem, Jesus is born in a cave, [3] and three shepherds – including the "angel" – arrive to bring him presents.